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Quintiliano de Mesquita

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Prof. Quintiliano H de Mesquita[1](1918 – October 28, 2000), Brazilian physician, was born in João Pessoa, Paraíba.

He obtained his degree of MD in 1939 at the Faculdade de Medicina do Recife. In 1940 he moved to São Paulo where he made his specialization in cardiology at the Hospital Municipal de São Paulo under the direction of Dr. Dante Pazzanese, staying there as voluntary assistant till 1945 when he founded and directed the Cardiology Institute of Matarazzo Hospital until 1979. He stayed at Hospital Municipal de São Paulo giving annual course of lectures on arrythmias until 1949. In 1943 he was one of the founders of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology.

Among Dr. Mesquita's several pionner contributions to the medical science, the most important are:

1) A new electrocardiographic classification of incomplete branch block with the discover of 2 new types of bundle branch block in 1948 [2]

2) 1º case of ventricular aneurism pos infarction operated by Charles Bailey in 1954 [3]

3) 1º case of right ventricular infarction diagnosed in vivo inside new electrocardiographic patterns contradiciting the ECG Cavity Theory and confirming the ECG Vectorial Theory of Myocardial Infarction, in 1958 [4]

4) The Myogenic Theory of Myocardial Infarction, in 1972 [5]

5) The confirmation of the Prinzmetal’s Theory of Accelerated Conduction, 1999 [6]

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